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Dissertation Acknowledgments

  • 30-04-2008 07:51PM
    #1
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Does anyone have a template (read: their own to put on boards:D) for the acknowledgments page for an undergrad dissertation? I've googled it into oblivion but keep getting tacky American sites or slightly weird sounding ones, thanking bfs and gfs etc etc.

    I basically need to thank a couple of lecturers and the library peeps, and include the obligatory 'I did not plagiarise any of this, honest' declaration. I feel a muppet asking my supervisor how to word the page where I thank him!

    Thanks in advance...


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    ellscurr wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Does anyone have a template (read: their own to put on boards:D) for the acknowledgments page for an undergrad dissertation? I've googled it into oblivion but keep getting tacky American sites or slightly weird sounding ones, thanking bfs and gfs etc etc.

    I basically need to thank a couple of lecturers and the library peeps, and include the obligatory 'I did not plagiarise any of this, honest' declaration. I feel a muppet asking my supervisor how to word the page where I thank him!

    Thanks in advance...

    Go to your college library and see what previous students have done in their dissertations.

    Either way, it is usually a simple, short paragraph with no bull or insincerity. Just remember you aren't writing an Oscar acceptance speech.

    I think I even thanked my wife in mine. :)


  • #3
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Thanks for that Tom Dunne. Unforunately my library 'claims' they don't have any copies of previous dissertations, likewise with my department etc etc. I think they think we're going to photocopy them and put our own name on the front or something. :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    Well for mine i looked at a lot of old theses and it ranged from just random thanks to full pages. We were allowed to keep ours very chilled out though

    Mine was a mix of serious thanks and then a few in jokes for people.

    To Dr. O' Brien I extend my sincere gratitude for all your help. Without your
    generosity this project could not have been completed.

    That was my one really serious line.


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